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This all sounds familiar. Don't let others **** the joy out of it. It's one of the reasons I don't often work on other peoples' stuff - barring friends and family. My ex would do that to me. Sucker me into helping out people she worked with. Stuff like "My brakes are making a noise!" Well...

Depends on the vehicle - meaning what's actually adjustable. Solid rear axle cars for example. You want to make sure the rear axle is axle straight etc. For my two SN95 Mustangs the only real adjustment w/o adding aftermarket caster / camber plates or cutting slots in shock tower is toe. I set...

Grew up in rural SC. We had quite a few fast trucks LOL. I like to say, when I bought my '67 Chevelle for $550 (I was 15 - it was the 1980s). It was a green turd. When I sold it, it was a primer, very fast, turd. I bought it from an old lady. It sat parked in what passed then for a 'retirement...

Was talking to a guy I know the other day - he asked about the color of my '04 GT (Competition Orange - one year only color for that generation Mustang). Very few made. Marti Report says a tick over 1K Mustang GTs with this color were made our of 36K GTs produced that year. Realized I hadn't...

Sleepers made the money back then. I used every poor racer's trick known to man to win races on the launch. Worn out shocks up front. Air bag preloading one side in the rear. Even rigged up a junkyard windshield washer system that sprayed VHT on the rear tires at the push of a button. Fastest...

I believe this is it: https://www.magnetpaints.com/underbody.asp Chassis Saver

There was some type of brush on black paint that we used to use on stuff we knew was going to get abused. Can't remember what it was called for the life of me. It wasn't cheap (gallon) but it went a LONG way and it was hard as a rock. Guy we knew ordered it at his shop (County / DOT shop that...

Trying to get the shop organized better w/o going down a rabbit hole so I can start putting all this back together: But I got sidetracked first by my DD '04 GT needing the intake manifold replaced. When I had that all apart (new tensioner, pullies, water pump, intake manifold, hoses etc) I...

Looks great. I know it's been a long haul.

That's funny. I grew up in a really small town. This was late 80s. We'd hit all the known cruising spots (some an hour or more away) in my '67 Chevelle. It wasn't pretty. "Which primer color is it this week?" - that was the running joke from my old boss back then. Often we'd troll the 'downtown'...

Well - the pressure washer runs. Good in fact. But apparently I might have damaged a gasket inside the fuel cut off switch enough when cleaning it that it now leaks a bit of fuel (coming from withing the valve itself). Not ideal, but I needed to get this frame clean so I can start stripping /...

I'm not being flip - you're saying that after EVERY use of your compressor, you drain it and leave the valve open? So if you need the compressor, you have to close the drain valve and wait for the tank to fill? Do you have that much water in your air supply that water actually drains every time...

Check the Milwaukee website for small businesses that are authorized dealers near you. If you call or drop my, many times they will give you a heads up when sales / rebates / deals might pop up. Sometimes they get used stuff too from trade ins etc. I've scored deals in the past doing this - YMMV

Can you have a word with your weather supplier and tell them to not send that East? We're all full up. Stay safe and I hope everything that's supposed to be on your property stays on your property.

Eating lunch with my FIL later so didn't have much time in the shop. Yesterday was mainly spent consolidating a ton of trash, cardboard etc, burning some, and then piggy backing on my neighbor's trip to the dump w/ his trailer because the truck has the bed off and the transmission stripped down...

This right here. Where we live, most people have 2-10 acre lots. Most of us hunt and shoot on our property (legally). Couple of years ago, they built a small sub division not too far from us. Lots of transplants 'moving to the country' complained about the gunfire. Turns out they didn't bother...

An easy way to check the condition of the tank inside - borrow / buy a cheap borescope camera. They even have 'em that hook up to your phone and they are dirt cheap. You'll at least know the tank isn't rotting away from the inside. Seen that result after rescuing an abandoned compressor that...

Got the pressure washer carb cleaned without resorting in a side quest to find just where I put my can of carb dip. I'm sure it's somewhere that will make sense once I actually need it and have to find it. Didn't want to run it more than a few seconds without the water flowing into the pump -...

Yup. That's common. I've also seen it in the field where a big metal bar / piece of stock was welded to the flange so it could be gripped from either side and turned. Necessity, and not wanting to spend hours going back to the shop to get more tools / equipment, is the mother of invention after all.

@zmotorsports That tool looks really familiar. Years ago we had a 6" metal junction break, the flange threaded in and it was corroded pretty bad (underground). After a lot of heat and no joy - we welded some bar stock onto the flange and a big socket on it and were able to break it loose without...